Transitions to global food security: an INRA-Cirad metaprogramme

The multi-year metaprogramme GloFoodS (Transitions to global food security) is dedicated to the investigation of pathways to worldwide food security in a context of competition for land and natural resources, and is jointly conducted by INRA and Cirad, the two leading French research institutions for agriculture.

Involving research on crop yield and livestock systems, land use changes, food processing and waste, nutrition and governance, GloFoodS aims at articulating global modeling of food supply and demand, with local issues of production and access to food.

The objective of the meeting is to clarify how partners working with INRA and CIRAD are considering the topic of global food security in the context of their missions, how they are organising their efforts to respond to this challenge and what they expect from agricultural research in this area.